Histoplasma-associated inflammatory pseudotumour of the kidney mimicking renal carcinoma
February 2009
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volume 454, issue 2 pp 229-232.
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A 56-year-old female, originally from Suriname, with an otherwise unremarkable previous medical history was found to have a renal mass highly suspicious for renal cancer for which a nephrectomy was performed. Within the kidney, a tumourous mass was found which, on histological examination, showed an inflammatory pseudotumour caused by Histoplasma capsulatum. Further investigations revealed an idiopathic CD4+ lymphopenia. Mass lesions mimicking a malignant tumour caused by infection with Histoplasma have rarely been described. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a Histoplasma-associated inflammatory pseudotumour mimicking cancer occurring in the kidney.
Keywords
- adult
- article
- female
- human
- priority journal
- human tissue
- CD4 antigen
- histopathology
- case report
- laboratory test
- Suriname
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Immunodeficiency
- Inflammatory pseudotumour
- Kidney neoplasms
- Histoplasma
- kidney cancer
- lymphocytopenia
- nephrectomy
- kidney carcinoma
- plasma cell granuloma
